New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West BY David E. Sanger

New Cold Wars by David E. Sanger, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon, provides a fast-paced inside story of America’s volatile rivalry with Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This New York Times bestseller captures the complexities of America's simultaneous confrontations with these two great nuclear powers.

For years, the United States believed that a democratic Russia and an increasingly wealthy China could be integrated into a Western-led order promising prosperity and peace, provided they adhered to Washington’s terms. However, as America emerged from the age of terrorism, it became clear that this belief was a fantasy. Now, the three powers are entangled in a high-stakes struggle for military, economic, political, and technological supremacy, with global nations pressured to align with one side.

Drawing on interviews with top officials from five presidential administrations, U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign governments, and tech companies, Sanger crafts a riveting narrative around critical questions of the era. Will Putin’s mistakes in Ukraine prove his undoing, or will he resort to his nuclear arsenal? Will Xi invade Taiwan? Will the partnership between Putin and Xi deepen to undercut American dominance? Can a politically dysfunctional America still lead the world?

Sanger takes readers from Ukraine’s battlefields, where trench and cyber warfare are intertwined, to Taiwan’s headquarters for the world’s most advanced computer chips, and to tense debates in the White House Situation Room. New Cold Wars is a remarkable first-draft history chronicling America's return to superpower conflict, the choices ahead, and what is at stake for the United States and the world. This book offers a cogent and revealing account of how a generation of American officials grappled with dangerous developments in the post-Cold War era.